She was even more surprised by the nonchalant response. “You didn’t even see people reacting because it was something they were so used to,” she said ...

In 2008, Dr. Laura Stachel went to Nigeria to find out why so many women were dying there during childbirth. She was flabbergasted to discover that in many areas, women were giving birth without ...

In 2008 Dr. Laura Stachel went to Nigeria to investigate the high rate of maternal mortalities (1 in 23) and was astounded to discover that energy deprivation-- no electricity-- was a MAJOR ...

We Care Solar, a California-based nonprofit, has delivered off-grid suitcase-sized solar kits to more than 10,000 health clinics in sub-Saharan Africa. The kits are designed to provide lighting for ...

In March 2008, Dr. Laura Stachel was sitting in a hospital in Northern Nigeria and watching a woman die. The experience wouldn’t just impact her — but change the lives of countless others. At the time ...

KANO, Nigeria - The World Health Organization says the number of women who die from pregnancy and childbirth has been cut in half over the last 20 years. While that is an encouraging development, ...

Small solar kits provide a reliable source of electricity. 1 A solar suitcase provides light at a clinic in Kano, Nigeria. (Photograph courtesy of We Care Solar) 2 A clinic in Kano, Nigeria.

The solar suitcase was the brainchild of obstetrician Dr Laura Stachel and husband Hal Aronson, co-founders of We Care Solar Hari Sunar is a 24 year-old mum whose second child is due in a few days.

One of the solar kits also helped during a recent cholera outbreak in the Congo Solar energy in a suitcase is an invention saving lives around the world in places that lack reliable electricity. Dr.

Hari Sunar is a 24 year-old mum whose second child is due in a few days. She walked from her home in the remote Nepalese village Pandavkhani for her final antenatal check up at her local birthing ...